in Islamic ceramics, style originating in Samarkand province (now in Uzbekistan) that was at its height in the 10th century and had backgrounds of black, red, and creamy white with ...
town, central Iraq. Located on the Tigris River, it is the site of a prehistoric settlement of the 5th millennium BC. The town was founded between the 3rd and 7th ...
city, northern Bihar state, northeastern India. Samastipur lies just south of the Burhi Gandak River. A major rail hub with workshops, it engages in agricultural trade and has sugar refining ...
city, southern Iraq. It is approximately 164 miles (266 km) south of Baghdad and is located on the Euphrates River. The city is the agricultural market centre of the locality, ...
city, east-central Azerbaijan. It is located 76 miles (122 km) west of Baku and is one of the oldest cities in the republic, dating from the 6th century AD, but ...
ballroom dance of Brazilian origin, popularized in western Europe and the United States in the early 1940s. Characterized by simple forward and backward steps and tilting, rocking body movements, it ...
in Indonesian and Malaysian cuisine, a spicy relish served as a side dish. The basic sambal consists of fresh chilis, shrimp paste (trassi), lime juice, sugar, and salt. Though most ...
town, northwestern Orissa state, eastern India. The town is a commercial centre and rail terminus along the Mahanadi River. It has some industry, including the milling of rice, weaving, and ...
(Cervus unicolor), widely distributed deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), found from India and Nepal eastward through Southeast Asia. The sambar live in forests, alone or in small groups. A large, ...
legendary "Sabbath River" beyond which the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were exiled in 721 BC by Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria. Legends describe it as a roaring torrent (often ...
town, northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies southwest of Moradabad town. Sambhal is an ancient settlement that was also important during the period of Muslim rule and was ...
ephemeral salt lake, the largest lake in India, situated in east-central Rajasthan state, west of Jaipur. About 90 square miles (230 square km) in area, it represents a depression of ...
(Russian: "self-defense without weapons"), form of wrestling developed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s from elements of several Soviet regional styles. It is also practiced in Japan and Bulgaria. ...
bay of the South Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, Argentina, located 100 miles (160 km) southeast of the city of Buenos Aires. The bay ...
city, in South Kyongsang do (province), southern South Korea. Islands such as Ch'ongsan, Sinsu, and Nuk screen the city's deepwater port. Its industries, which were traditionally based on fishing and ...
(Celtic: "End of Summer"), one of the most important and sinister calendar festivals of the Celtic year. At Samhain, held on November 1, the world of the gods was believed ...
any member of a people speaking the Sami language and inhabiting Lapland and adjacent areas of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The ...
any of three members of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken by the Sami (Lapp) people in northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway and on the Kola Peninsula ...
long-necked, fretless Japanese lute with three strings, a small, square body with catskin front and back, and a curved-back pegbox with side pegs. It was derived from the similar Chinese ...
(from Russian sam, "self," and izdatelstvo, "publishing"), literature secretly written, copied, and circulated in the former Soviet Union and usually critical of practices of ...
one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy (q.v.). Samkhya adopts a consistent dualism of the orders of matter (prakriti) and soul, or self (purusha). The two are ...
Italian composer who was an important formative influence on the pre-Classical symphony and thus on the Classical style later developed by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
ancient Buddhist school or group of schools in India that held a distinctive theory concerning the pudgala, or person. They believed that though an individual does not exist independently from ...
a member of the ancient warlike tribes inhabiting the mountainous centre of southern Italy. These tribes, who spoke Oscan and were probably an offshoot of the Sabini, apparently referred to ...
group of Polynesian islands and islets in the south-central Pacific Ocean about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand. American Samoa, a dependency of the United States, consists of ...
Greek island in the Aegean Sea, the closest one to the mainland of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the narrow Samos Strait. The 184-sq-mi (476-sq-km) island is ...
tunnel drilled on the Aegean island of Samos in the 6th century BC to carry water for the capital city of the tyrant Polycrates from springs on the far side ...
island in Danau (lake) Toba, Sumatera Utara propinsi (North Sumatra province), Sumatra, Indonesia. Approximately 200 sq mi (520 sq km) in area, the island occupies nearly half the lake and ...
Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea off the Thracian coast, included in the nomos (department) of Evros. The 69-sq-mi (178-sq-km) island is geologically complex, consisting chiefly of ancient granites, ...
metal urn, often of brass, with a spigot near its base, widely used in Russia to boil water for tea. In traditional samovars water is heated by means of a ...
breed of working dog developed in Siberia, where it was kept by the Samoyed people as a sled dog and companion and as a herd dog for their reindeer. The ...
group of languages spoken in Siberia and the Russian Arctic that, together with the Finno-Ugric languages, constitute the family of Uralic languages (q.v.). There are five Samoyedic languages, which are ...
most common type of small boat in Chinese waters, constructed in a variety of designs. Some have sharp bows, and nearly all have large sterns, with the after portion of ...
embroidered panel of linen on which various types of stitches are demonstrated. The earliest extant European examples date from the 16th century. The original purpose of the sampler, in the ...
in statistics, a process or method of drawing a representative group of individuals or cases from a particular population. Sampling and statistical inference are used in circumstances in which it ...
mysterious object often referred to in the mythological songs of the Finns, most likely a cosmological pillar or some similar support holding up the vault of heaven. In a cycle ...
in Hinduism, a traditional school of religious teaching, transmitted from one teacher to another. From about the 11th century onward, several sects emerged out of Vaisnavism (worship of the god ...
American tennis player whose exceptional all-around game enabled him to win 14 grand-slam singles titles, a record among male players. During his career he won seven Wimbledon singles championships (also ...
in Indian philosophy, the central conception of metempsychosis. It refers in Hinduism and Jainism to the career of the soul, which, once it has fallen from its original state of ...
village in Adiyaman il (province), southeastern Turkey, on the upper Euphrates River. In antiquity Samosata was a fortified city guarding an important crossing point of the river on the east-west ...
any of the personal sacraments traditionally observed at every stage of a Hindu's life, from the moment of conception to the final scattering of his funeral ashes. The observance of ...
Israelite hero portrayed in an epic narrative in the Old Testament (Judg. 13-16). He was a Nazirite (q.v.) and a legendary warrior whose incredible exploits hint at the weight of ...
city, capital of Samsun il (province), northern Turkey. The largest city on the southern coast of the Black Sea, Samsun lies between the deltas of the Kizil and Yesil rivers. ...
Indian regional emperor from about AD 330 to 380 who was the epitome of an "ideal king" of the "golden age of Hindu history," as the period of the imperial ...
religious hero in the history of Israel, represented in the Old Testament in every role of leadership open to a Jewish man of his day-seer, priest, judge, prophet, and military ...
Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, poet, warrior, and statesman who for two decades was the power behind the throne of the caliphate of Granada.
Babylonian amora (scholar), head of the important Jewish academy at Nehardea. His teachings, along with those of Rav (Abba Arika, head of the academy at Sura), figure prominently in the ...
two Old Testament books that, along with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Kings, belong to the tradition of Deuteronomic history first committed to writing about 550 BC, during ...
British statesman and philosopher, one of the first Jewish members of the British cabinet (as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1909-10). He was perhaps most important as first British ...
Swedish biochemist, corecipient with fellow Swede Sune K. Bergstrom and Englishman John Robert Vane of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The three scientists were honoured for their ...
(May 29, 1658), decisive struggle in a contest for the throne between the sons of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan after the emperor's serious illness in September 1657. The battle ...
English Simoom, small and extremely hot and dry local wind in Arabia and the Sahara. Its temperature often reaches 55° C (about 130° F), and its humidity sometimes falls ...
member of the Japanese warrior caste. The term samurai was originally used to denote the aristocratic warriors (bushi), but it came to apply to all the members of the warrior ...
town, south-central Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand. Samut Prakan (sometimes called Paknam) lies at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River and serves as a lower port of Bangkok, ...
town, south-central Thailand. The fishing port of Samut Sakhon is located on the Gulf of Thailand at the mouth of the Tha Chin River. It is a rice-milling centre and ...
town, south-central Thailand. It lies along the Gulf of Thailand southwest of Bangkok. The town is a fishing port on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Thailand at the ...
in northern Buddhism, a fierce protective deity. Like Heruka and Hevajra, he is an emanation of the Buddha Aksobhya and wears a figure of that god in his headdress. Samvara ...
(Sanskrit: "the empirical truth"), in Buddhist thought, the truth based on the common understanding of ordinary people. It refers to the empirical reality usually accepted in everyday life and can ...
an indigenous people of southern Africa, related to the Khoekhoe (Khoikhoi). They live chiefly in Botswana, Namibia, and southeastern Angola. Bushmen is an Anglicization of boesman, the ...
major fracture of the Earth's crust in extreme western North America. The fault trends northwestward for more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from the northern end of the Gulf of ...
segment of the southern Rocky Mountains, extending southward parallel to the Rio Grande for 150 miles (241 km), through Socorro, Sierra, and Dona Ana counties in southern New Mexico, U.S. ...
city, southeastern Veracruz estado ("state"), south-central Mexico. It lies on the slopes of San Martin volcano, along the Tuxtla River, at an elevation of 1,181 feet (360 m) above sea ...
island departamento, Colombia, consisting of the Andres and Providencia islands and several small keys in the Caribbean Sea, 440 miles (710 km) northwest of Cartagena, Colom., and 110 miles (180 ...
city, seat (1875) of Tom Green county, west-central Texas, U.S. It lies about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Abilene. Founded in 1869 near Fort Concho (now a museum) at ...
city, seat (1837) of Bexar county, south-central Texas, U.S. It is situated at the headwaters of the San Antonio River on the Balcones Escarpment, about 80 miles (130 km) southwest ...
city, west central La Habana province, west central Cuba. Lying on the Rio San Antonio de los Banos, the settlement prospered and became a health resort because of its thermal ...
one of the largest animal collections in the southwestern United States, located in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1914, the zoo and accompanying aquarium are operated by the San Antonio ...
